GIF of the Day: Jacob Broms Engblom’s “Gold”

Imagine it’s 2009. Addressing “digital color” was still a new concern. In HTML Color Codes(2009), an online exhibition curated by Carolyn Kane for Rhizome, each digital artist was assigned a color to interpret in its vastness. Kane says at the time it was widely assumed that “artists working with the internet are in fact limited to a ‘ready-made’ color palette.” Well, as we can see with a work like Jacob Broms Engblom’s “Gold,” digital color isn’t a limitation; it’s an asset.